[clue] BIOS password clears?

[Quentin Hartman]

One nuance of the password reset jumpers that people often forget is that
you have to set them into the reset position and power the machine up,
possible answering some prompts and getting into the BIOS before it will
actually reset.

Did you do that?

QH


On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 6:52 AM, Mike Bean <beandaemon at gmail.com> wrote:

> We're having some trouble getting past a badly set BIOS password at my
> work.  I've tried booting it to backup UEFI as well as the jumper password
> reset, as well as all known passwords and combinations of passwords.  It's
> an IBM x240 compute node. I'm trying to clear the administrator password on
> the BIOS, and I know this is a hail mary at best, but I tried pulling the
> CMOS battery.   (Frankly, I'm not even confident that BIOS/UEFI even works
> like that anymore, but I'm running out of ideas short of calling IBM and
> that's never fun.)   Any suggestions?
>
> Mike
>
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